{"id":14270,"date":"2023-05-14T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=14270"},"modified":"2023-05-14T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T16:25:15","slug":"letranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/letranger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0L&#8217;\u00c9tranger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the early months of our relationship <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jane and I travelled to the Medway Valley <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To harvest strawberries in England&#8217;s garden <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said we limited our time in the fields <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As apart from the frequent strawberry battles <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work could be tedious and very tiring <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But to me it was something rather exciting <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As  I had discovered my personal  Shoreham <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a summer of long walks and milk machines <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of cream teas and lazy hours under trees <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my time there I purchased a paperback <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From a grocers shop not far from the railway station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Stranger by Albert Camus was an odd choice <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my selection was limited to the extreme <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can recall reading it in the furnace fields <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Jane drifted in the warm breezes next to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We often visit our memories on hot July days <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But never really create the music of our recent past  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early months of our relationship Jane and I travelled to the Medway Valley To harvest strawberries in England&#8217;s garden That said we limited our time in the fields As apart from the frequent strawberry battles The work could be tedious and very tiring But to me it was something rather exciting As I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14270"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14279,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions\/14279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}